Age Of Mythology- The Titans Page

But The Titans was more than a mechanical patch. It was a philosophical answer to a lingering question in RTS design: What happens when mortals grasp the tools of the divine? The original Age of Mythology campaign was a Homeric epic, following the Greek admiral Arkantos as he thwarted the fallen god Poseidon. It ended with a bittersweet ascension: Arkantos, now a god himself, leaves the mortal plane.

The Titans campaign, The New Atlantis , cleverly subverts this happy ending. It follows Kastor, Arkantos’s son, who is desperate to live up to his father’s legacy. Manipulated by the cunning god Prometheus (and unknowingly, the Titans themselves), Kastor is tricked into freeing the primordial Titans from Tartarus. Age of Mythology- The Titans

In the pantheon of real-time strategy expansions, few have dared to do what Age of Mythology: The Titans (2003) accomplished. Most expansions offer new units, a handful of maps, and a forgettable five-mission campaign. Ensemble Studios, however, took a bolder route: they introduced a fourth, playable civilization—the Atlanteans—and with it, a radical rethinking of economic flow, military tempo, and the very definition of a "super-unit." But The Titans was more than a mechanical patch